Western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, first arose as an important invasive pest of
many crops during the 1970s–1980s. The tremendous growth in international agricultural …

Insect pests are responsible for substantial crop losses worldwide through direct damage
and transmission of plant diseases, and novel approaches that complement or replace …

RNA interference (RNAi) methods for insects are often limited by problems with double-
stranded (ds) RNA delivery, which restricts reverse genetics studies and the development of …

We present AAI-profiler, a web server for exploratory analysis and quality control in
comparative genomics. AAI-profiler summarizes proteome-wide sequence search results to …

Background The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), is a globally
invasive pest and plant virus vector on a wide array of food, fiber, and ornamental crops. The …

Many insects depend on obligate mutualistic bacteria to provide essential nutrients lacking
from their diet. Most aphids, whose diet consists of phloem, rely on the bacterial …

Frankliniella occidentalis (western flower thrips [WFT]) and Thrips tabaci (onion thrips [OT])
are insect species that greatly impact horticultural crops through direct damage and their …

Symbiosis has played a major role in eukaryotic evolution beyond the origin of the
eukaryotic cell. Thus, organisms across the tree of life are associated with diverse microbial …

RNA interference (RNAi)-based pesticides are pest control agents that use RNAi
mechanisms as the basis of their action. They are regarded as environmentally friendly and …

Highlights•Thrips and tospoviruses threaten food and ornamental plant production systems.•
Characterization of the virus-vector interactome reveals new targets for control.•Thrips …